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Medical assistance in dying : our lessons learned
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On February 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the prohibition of physician-assisted dying and ordered the federal parliament to enact legislation to allow it within 12 months.On June 17, 2016, Bill C-142 received royal assent, the final step by which a bill becomes both an Act of Parliament and Canadian law. This act made it legal for physicians to provide assistance in dying to individuals in an advanced state of irreversible decline whose natural death was “reasonably foreseeable.” Canada’s health care system rapidly developed protocols for Medical Assistance in Dying, which became known by its acronym, MAID. Like many physicians, each of us felt that changing the law and delivering this service was the right thing to do for the right kind of patient (and there was vigorous debate about who that was). At the same time, we both felt that for at least the near future, we would likely be reluctant to directly or indirectly participate in MAID ourselves.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.2862
Voir la revue «JAMA internal medicine, 177»
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